RAMSEY — A couple facing charges of illegally feeding wildlife with their peanut-dispensing birdfeeder won an adjournment Tuesday after their lawyer and the municipal prosecutor said they had agreed to discuss the matter with the town’s environmental specialist in hopes of resolving it.

“This case comes down to peanuts,” said Anthony N. Iannarelli Jr., the lawyer representing Alfred Rockefeller, 77, and his wife Annette, 66. “Peanuts and bird-feed, that’s what it’s all about.”

The Rockefellers said the borough’s environmental health specialist, Leo Egan, had taken the position that birds do not eat peanuts and a short time after that police served them a summons accusing them of violating the ordinance that prohibits feeding wildlife.

The couple, who could be fined $250 to $500, showed up for a Municipal Court hearing armed with photographs they had taken of a blue jay perched at their circular feeder, gripping a peanut in its beak.

In the courtroom to support them was Dan Torino, president of the Bergen County Audubon Society, who said he was prepared to testify that blue jays and some other birds do eat peanuts.

Egan was not in court.

“The ordinance prohibits feeding wildlife,” said Iannarelli, who was representing the couple pro bono. “But it allows birdfeeders if they are elevated, which the Rockefellers’ birdfeeder is. So this birdfeeder is in compliance.”

The only question, Iannarelli said, “is whether peanuts are an acceptable feed for birds.”

Municipal Court Judge Joseph Rotolo set a new court date for Sept. 10 after Iannarelli and Martin told him they needed an adjournment to give them time to meet with Egan.